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If you ask any college student what they miss most about home their answer will usually be either food or a pet. For me it’s my dog, Tilda. I Skype her when I’m sad, my mom sends me pictures of [...]

I’m in the throes of the most mundane decision masked as the biggest decision I’ll ever make. The emails in objection tell me they’d never let their daughters make the decision I’m tossing over [...]

I’ve lost old boyfriends to testosterone and dishonesty and incompatibility; we’re still too young to prioritize what feels right from what feels easy from hours of homework. We’re still too [...]

Often we’re told being selfish is bad. It’s disrespectful, shameful, and wrong. But we are all selfish. Every one of us. We act to serve ourselves. We eat what tastes good to us, befriend [...]

I remember my middle school years: my body standing with a steady sixty-two pounds from fifth grade through eighth when my smallness stopped its market cuteness and morphed into concern; the [...]

I step out of the Powell’s, an Oregonian bookshop, my new romance novel tucked neatly under my armpit; I look both ways before crossing the street to the kitty-cornered Starbucks. To my left she [...]

It’s 10am on a Sunday; I’m sitting crossed-legged in jogger-pants on a stained beige couch in Starbucks and eagerly fingering the pages of my recent Powell’s purchase. Today the black and red [...]

I was born in Connecticut, which led to eighteen years in two towns in Connecticut before: a year in Pennsylvania, two years in Massachusetts, and I still have a year in Massachusetts to come. I [...]

After a year of upcoming-deadlines, lunch on-the-go, and messy roommates, the spring semester finally came to a close. Those of us who didn’t graduate either brought soft-tissues to graduation [...]

Transitioning from one job to another is never an easy time in a person’s life. That is certainly true for students like myself who change jobs in high school or college. Recently, I left my job [...]